This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it.
Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian regimes have sponsored a ?cult? of state security,... more...

This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states ? where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.
To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet... more...

It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies. more...

Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisonersin 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’semblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the mostextensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority ofits victims perished far from the forest in western Russia thatgives the tragedy its name. Their remains... more...